If that yellow hadn't come out, we'd have won. You can ask Mark, he was a sitting duck. |
It used to be a series where a young kid with a mediocre team could come in and run 20th and gain a ton of experience and knowledge. Now there are 25 Cup guys out there, and these young guys can't get in the race. |
It was nerve-racking, but I'll take it. We were doing the right thing, making the right move. |
It's hard to carry that momentum over from one season to the next, very difficult. There's no one reason why we ran good. It's just about combinations - crew chief, driver, truck, crew - you've got to have every piece of the puzzle and we did. It just worked. |
Jimmy just does what Jimmy does, ... If he can't pass you he runs into you. |
Mark got alongside me but I was able to get him back. He raced me hard but he raced me clean. |
Once I looked back and saw they were racing side-by-side, I knew all I had to do was not make a mistake and I'd be all right, |
Right now, we've just got it going on, ... If we could bottle it, we could make millions. |
There was no way I could let Mark Martin get outside of me on that restart. |
There was no way I could let Mark Martin get outside of me on that restart. My truck was so loose when somebody was out there. When he went inside, I said, 'Have at it.' That was what we needed. |
This Toyota Tundra was incredible to drive, ... I'm happy for this team who have worked a lot of long nights to get to victory lane. I loved this. The Toyota people were fantastic to work with. We're going to be up late tonight celebrating. |
To get a pole for us is phenomenal. We usually set up for long run. We don't even do qualifying runs in practice. |
We didn't even know about it, ... I guess it wasn't that bad or [NASCAR] would have made us come in. |
We had to do that. |
We know there are a lot of good teams gunning for the championship, but we are focused on our job. Its nice to know the competition feels that Ted and I are the guys to beat. |